How to Install Baun CMS on Ubuntu 20.4.1

To Install Baun CMS on Ubuntu 20.4.1

Introduction:

The Baun CMS is a modern PHP application that helps webmasters create websites without writing a line of code. The application is modular, lightweight, and extendable.

Installation process:

Run lsb_release command to check the installed version of OS as follows.

root@linuxhelp:~# 
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

Install Apache:

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.2-0
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine | apache2-suexec-custom
The following NEW packages will be installed:

Start the apache by following command

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl start apache2

Install PHP modules by using the below commands:

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-sqlite3 php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php7.4 libc-client2007e libonig5 libzip5 mlock php7.4 php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-imap
  php7.4-json php7.4-ldap php7.4-mbstring php7.4-mysql php7.4-opcache php7.4-readline php7.4-soap php7.4-sqlite3 php7.4-xml

Install mysql by using the below command:

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libfcgi-perl libhtml-template-perl libmecab2
  mecab-ipadic mecab-ipadic-utf8 mecab-utils mysql-client-8.0 mysql-client-core-8.0 mysql-server-8.0 mysql-server-core-8.0
Suggested packages:
  libipc-sharedcache-perl mailx tinyca
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libaio1 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libevent-core-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libfcgi-perl libhtml-template-perl libmecab2
  mecab-ipadic mecab-ipadic-utf8 mecab-utils mysql-client-8.0 mysql-client-core-8.0 mysql-server mysql-server-8.0
  mysql-server-core-8.0

Download Baun cms by using the below command:

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/archive/1.3.2.zip
--2020-12-05 11:19:08--  https://github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/archive/1.3.2.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.210.38
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.210.38|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://codeload.github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/zip/1.3.2 [following]
--2020-12-05 11:19:08--  https://codeload.github.com/BaunCMS/Baun/zip/1.3.2
Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 13.233.43.20
Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|13.233.43.20|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘1.3.2.zip’
1.3.2.zip                            [ <=>                                                       ]  26.38K  --.-KB/s    in 0.08s   
2020-12-05 11:19:09 (320 KB/s) - ‘1.3.2.zip’ saved [27014]

Extract the Zip file by using the below command:

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip 1.3.2.zip
Archive:  1.3.2.zip
a9e698e9e16e8a9785b95bdc89eeee0c487d78ee
   creating: Baun-1.3.2/
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/.gitignore   
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/CHANGELOG.md  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/LICENSE      
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/README.md    
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/auto-install.php  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/baun         
   creating: Baun-1.3.2/cache/
 extracting: Baun-1.3.2/cache/.gitignore  
  inflating: Baun-1.3.2/composer.json  
   creating: Baun-1.3.2/config/

Rename the directory:

root@linuxhelp:~# mv Baun-1.3.2 /var/www/baun

Give the Ownership and permissions to baun directory

root@linuxhelp:~# chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/baun
root@linuxhelp:~# chmod -R 775 /var/www/baun

Create a virtualhost for Baun CMS:

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/baun.conf

change the directory to Baun directory:

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /var/www/baun

Install Composer:

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/baun# apt install composer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-5.4.0-42 linux-headers-5.4.0-42-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-52 linux-headers-5.4.0-52-generic
  linux-image-5.4.0-42-generic linux-image-5.4.0-52-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-42-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-52-generic
  linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-42-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-52-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  git git-man jsonlint liberror-perl php-composer-ca-bundle php-composer-semver php-composer-spdx-licenses
  php-composer-xdebug-handler php-json-schema php-psr-container php-psr-log php-symfony-console php-symfony-filesystem
  php-symfony-finder php-symfony-process php-symfony-service-contracts
Suggested packages:
  fossil mercurial subversion git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit git-doc git-el git-email git-gui gitk gitweb git-cvs
  git-mediawiki git-svn php-symfony-event-dispatcher php-symfony-lock php-symfony-service-implementation
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  composer git git-man jsonlint liberror-perl php-composer-ca-bundle php-composer-semver php-composer-spdx-licenses

Disable default access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/baun# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

Enable site access

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/baun# a2ensite baun.conf
Enabling site baun.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

Enable rewrite module

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/baun# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl restart apache2

Once it is completed, Restart the Apache Web Server by running the following command

root@linuxhelp:/var/www/baun# systemctl restart apache2

Open Browser type static IP on URL

It will show Home page of Baun CMS

with this method installation on Baun CMS on ubuntu comes to end.